GLASNOST

gläsˈnōst, Soviet cultural and social policy of the late 1980s. Following his ascension to the leadership of the USSR in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev began to promote a policy of openness in public discussions about current and historical problems. The policy was termed glasnost [openness]. The brutality of the Stalin era, such as the great purges and the Katyn massacre, were acknowledged, and the corruption and stagnation of the Brezhnev era were sharply criticized. Soviet leaders became more receptive both to the media and to foreign leaders as a new period of detente opened between East and West. Gorbachev hoped that a candidness about the state of the country would accelerate his perestroika program.

See M. Gorbachev, Perestroika (1988); E. A. Hewett and V. H. Winston, ed., Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka (1991).

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Voices of Glasnost: Conversations with Gorbachev's Reformers
Book by Stephen F. Cohen, Katrina Vanden Heuvel; Norton, 1989
Subjects: Glasnost, Interviews--Soviet Union
...now are laws that will institutionalize glasnost by guaranteeing and protecting it. Again...a problem of our political culture. Glasnost has aroused all sorts of conservative...want to strangle the press because of glasnost. We need a law guaranteeing freedom...
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Glasnost, Perestroika, and the Socialist Community
Book by Charles Bukowski, J. Richard Walsh; Praeger Publishers, 1990
Subjects: Communist Countries--Politics And Government, Glasnost, Perestro?Ika
...of the contributors that the impact of glasnost and perestroika will vary according to...policy process will be most affected by glasnost and perestroika when it deals with foreign...situation. The range of issues affected by glasnost and perestroika among the East European...
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Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka: The Economy
Book by Ed A. Hewett, Victor H. Winston; Brookings Institution, 1991
Subjects: Glasnost, Perestro?Ika, Soviet Union--Economic Conditions--1985-1991, Soviet Union--Economic Policy--1986-1991
...and as a matter of fact, the very concept of glasnost pertains primarily to glasnost in management. Lastly, a few words on the difference between freedom of the press and glasnost, for I think that the substance here is somewhat...
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Women's Glasnost vs. Naglost: Stopping Russian Backlash
Book by Tatyana Mamonova, Chandra Folsom Niles; Bergin & Garvey, 1994
Subjects: Glasnost, Russia (Federation)--Social Conditions--1991-, Soviet Union--Social Conditions--1970-1991, Women--Russia (Federation)--Social Conditions
...everything will work out now. TM: How has glasnost affected you personally? Has it changed...about Russia? NS: On the one hand, glasnost gave people the right to express their...and werent used to the truth. After glasnost, people began to speak openly; the...
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Beyond Glasnost: Soviet Reform and Security Issues
Book by David T. Twining; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Soviet Union--Foreign Relations--1985-1991, Soviet Union--Military Policy, Soviet Union--Politics And Government--1985-1991
...created to discern its adaptations to glasnost and "new thinking." The KGBs role...sword was increasingly inconsistent with glasnost. As a structure above the law, it was...of secrecy and a movement to embrace glasnost in new ways. As a result, KGB officers...
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Toward Glasnost in the IMF
Journal article by Jeffrey Sachs; Challenge, Vol. 37, 1994
Subjects: Glasnost--Analysis, International Monetary Fund--Relations with developing countries, Russia--Economic policy
Toward Glasnost in the IMF by Jeffrey Sachs The solution for the Russian economy is not...Poland, Argentina, and Estonia in recent years.) A final plea: Glasnost in the IMF IMF performance will never be properly understood, much less...
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Glasnost -- the Dawn of Freedom
Journal article by Richard Schifiter; World Affairs, Vol. 151, 1988
Subjects: Arbitration, International, International Relations, Peace
...label for this new development. It was called "glasnost." Glasnost, we thought at the time, was a way of enlisting...to get the country out of its disastrous slump. Glasnost, it seemed to me, would help advance the goals...
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Erotic Glasnost: Sexuality in Recent Russian Literature
Journal article by Konstantin Kustanovich; World Literature Today, Vol. 67, 1993
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
Erotic Glasnost: Sexuality in Recent Russian Literature...freedom of speech, known worldwide as glasnost . Never before in Russian history has...midsixties, long before the outrages of glasnost . From this, one can conclude that Russians...
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Arab Views of Soviet Policy in the Era of Glasnost, 1985-1991
Journal article by Yury Polsky; The Middle East Journal, Vol. 56, 2002
Subjects: Egypt, Foreign policy, International relations, Palestinian territory, Syria, USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
...Views of Soviet Policy in the Era of Glasnost, 1985-1991 by Yury Polsky Palestinians...Israeli conflict. Perestroika and glasnost changed the Soviet Union dramatically...already during the earlier stages of glasnost and perestroika in 1985-1989, certain...
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Medical Ethics in the Soviet Union
Journal article by Robert M. Veatch; The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 19, 1989
Subjects: Glasnost--Influence, Medical ethics, Perestroika--Influence, Soviet Union--Health aspects
...in keeping with the current themes of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring...ribbons on their breasts. The period of glasnost and perestroika has also encouraged a...were remarkably blunt. The spirit of glasnost surely prevailed. No apologies were...
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Letter from Moscow: The Buttons of Glasnost
Magazine article by Katrina Vanden Heuvel; The Nation, Vol. 249, July 10, 1989
Subjects: Glasnost--Political aspects, Soviet Union--Politics and government
Letter from Moscow: The Buttons of Glasnost. by Katrina vanden Heuvel The Congress...decades by censorship. Four years of glasnost have released such an explosion of conflicting...explained, "because they believe that glasnost has been monopolized by the anti-Stalinists...
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Glasnost for Cinematographers?
Magazine article by George Turner; American Cinematographer, Vol. 70, March 1989
Glasnost for Cinematographers? by George Turner Glasnost is a word few of us knew until very recently. Now this...However, the news was also sad for me because in the era of glasnost there was not a single voice raised in defense of the director...
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A Poet's View of Glasnost; Revolution by Culture
Magazine article by Andrei Voznesensky; The Nation, Vol. 244, June 13, 1987
Subjects: Communism, Communism and culture, Cultural relations, Culture, Soviet Union--Social policy
A Poets View of Glasnost; Revolution by Culture. by Andrei...necessary and everyday thing. For me glasnost was born in the language of Leo Tolstoy...only to someone else. Maybe the word glasnost, like sputnik, requires no translation...
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Wanted: A Nude Glasnost; Soviet Chic
Magazine article by Slavenka Drakulic; The Nation, Vol. 244, June 20, 1987
Subjects: Burda (periodical)--Publishing, Media sex, Sex discrimination against women, Sex in mass media, Soviet Union--Censorship, Women's magazines, Women's periodicals
Wanted: A Nude Glasnost; Soviet Chic. by Slavenka Drakulic Wanted: A Nude Glasnost The West German fashion magazine Burda Modenillustrates...after Mikhail Gorbachev proclaimed his policy of glasnost, Burda announced it would begin producing a...
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Glasnost for Soviet Science Fiction
Magazine article; The Futurist, Vol. 25, March 1991
Subjects: Authors, Russian--Works, Science fiction--Soviet Union, Soviet literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Zamiatin, Eugene--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Glasnost for Soviet science fiction A more-open Soviet Union is letting science...the 1960s. One catalyst to this renewed interest may be the atmosphere of glasnost - openness - that in 1989 permitted an influential Russian science-fiction...
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'Glasnost' as Issue in Today's Russia
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 23, 2004
Subjects: Putin, Vladimir
Glasnost as Issue in Todays Russia. A rollback...thus the ideas of "perestroika" and "glasnost" were born and Russia has never been...is the restructuring of the economy and glasnost is publicity and political openness to...
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GLASGOW GLASGOW TO GLASNOST GLASNOST; Aid Loves Hassle-Free Life in Moscow
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), November 4, 2010
GLASGOW GLASGOW TO GLASNOST GLASNOST; Aid Loves Hassle-Free Life in Moscow. Byline: MARK GUIDI AIDEN McGEADY received death threats when he played for Celtic. Now, when out and about in Moscow, he gets nothing but compliments. McGeady is...
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A Glasnost Haunting of China
Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, August 16, 1999
Subjects: China, Gorbachev, Mikhail
A glasnost haunting of China by Arnold Beichman The ghost that hovers over communist...must say "B." Little did Mr. Gorbachev realize that when he said "glasnost" and "perestroika" he would be unleashing socio-political forces beyond...
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Eureka! Cork's Reds Have Accepted Glasnost; Square BALL World of GAA
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 24, 2010
Eureka! Corks Reds Have Accepted Glasnost; Square BALL World of GAA. Byline: Compiled by John Fogarty...does appear that the county board is finally willing to embrace glasnost and perestroika. As they formulate a muchneeded and long...
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Glasnost on Race Relations at the White House
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 2, 1997
Subjects: Connerly, Ward
Glasnost on race relations at the White House President Clintons commission on race relations has proved itself a huge disappointment...
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Glasnost
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GLASNOST glas nost, Soviet cultural and social...historical problems. The policy was termed glasnost openness. The brutality of the Stalin...V. H. Winston, ed., Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka (1991...
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...secretary of the CPSU in Mar., 1985. Glasnost and Perestroika Gorbachev inherited a...The measures, which Gorbachev called glasnost ("openness") and perestroika...free flow of goods and information. Glasnost received an immediate challenge when...
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Reagan, Ronald Wilson
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Beginning in 1985, Reagan began to soften his stance toward the Soviet Union in response to signals of a new openness (see glasnost ) in foreign relations under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev . The two leaders met four times between 1985 and 1988, when...
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Perestroika
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and economic changes. See M. Gorbachev, Perestroika (1988); E. A. Hewett and V. H. Winston, ed., Milestones in Glasnost and Perestroyka (1991). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the...
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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...politburo. He embarked on a comprehensive program of political, economic, and social liberalization under the slogans of glasnost ("openness") and perestroika ("restructuring"). The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl (1986) forced Gorbachev to allow...
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